Word: insignium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States, however, Senatorial campaigns might help or hinder the winning of electoral votes somewhat as follows: In wet Republican Illinois, wet Democrat A. J. Cermak campaigned formidably against Republican Otis F. Glenn. The Cermak insignium was a bottle-opener and the motto: "This is for beer. So is Cermak." So is Smith...
...outstanding property of the Smith trip was a brown derby hat. That is the Smith insignium. Asheville haberdashers caught the idea quickly and their windows were soon filled with what one correspondent referred to as "copper war helmets." In Manhattan, seeking to find out where the original Brown Derby was bought, newsgatherers found no less than three hatters claiming the honor-Knox, Young and Truly Warner. The Knox company said that Candidate Smith purchased four or five of its hats per annum. All hatters look forward to a boom year, not even counting election bets...
...will be a house of distinction is its announcement that its public offerings will not be swaddled, as is the current fashion, in soft bales of superlative adjectives and the ejaculations of self-advertising pre-reviewers. The election of Mr. Cabell as first to bear the new John Day insignium, in a limited edition (3,000 copies), is evidence that the publishers intend kindly towards fine writing, and the book's artistic execution intimates that the houses of Brentano, Knopf, Boni & Liveright, the Viking Press, A. & C. Boni, Houghton Mifflin and their peers are to have company in their...